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An all-new upset error message - tar related?
- From: Christopher Faylor <email address deleted>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:59:09 -0400
- Subject: An all-new upset error message - tar related?
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Invalid header block at offset unknown at /export/u0/sourceware/sourceware/libre/infra/bin/cygwin/Cygwin/Setup/Listing.pm line 186
Invalid header block at offset unknown at /export/u0/sourceware/sourceware/libre/infra/bin/cygwin/Cygwin/Setup/Listing.pm line 186
Invalid header block at offset unknown at /export/u0/sourceware/sourceware/libre/infra/bin/cygwin/Cygwin/Setup/Listing.pm line 186
No data could be read from file at /export/u0/sourceware/sourceware/libre/infra/bin/cygwin/Cygwin/Setup/Listing.pm line 186
PROBLEMS WITH release/w32api/w32api-3.7-1-src.tar.bz2
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I've been noticing this error message for a couple of days.
I wonder if it has something to do with the new version of tar?
So far, it has cropped up for monotone, coreutils, and, now, w32api.
Unpacking/repacking the files on sourceware.org seems to "fix" the
problem.
Can the maintainers of these pacakges please confirm/deny if they've
been using tar-1.15.90-1? If not, I'll have to investigate what has
changed on sourceware.org recently.
cgf